166 Rhodora [Juse 
branched villose compound corymbs ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 
glabrous except at the very base, the lobes gradually narrowed from 
below, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, villose on the inner 
surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens usually 8; anthers pale 
yellow; styles 3 or 4. Fruit in drooping slightly villose clusters, 
oblong, full and rounded at the ends, bright clear red, lustrous, con- 
spicuously marked by very large white dots, r.1—1.2 cm. long, about 
9 mm. wide; calyx small, sessile, with a deep narrow cavity and 
spreading closely appressed lobes villose on the upper side; flesh 
thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, thin, acute at the ends, 
prominently ridged on the back, with a narrow rounded ridge, 8 mm. 
in length. 
A large arborescent shrub sometimes 4 or 5 m. in height with 
numerous stems forming a broad open head, and slender nearly 
straight branchlets marked by large pale lenticels, dark orange-green 
and villose when they first appear, dull light reddish brown during 
their first season, dull ashy gray the following year, and unarmed or 
sparingly armed with nearly straight dark red-brown spines about 4 
cm. in length. Flowers during the first week of June. Fruit ripens 
early in October. 
MAINE: river thickets of the valley of the lower Aroostook where 
it is the common species and very beautiful in autumn when it is 
covered with its abundant brilliant fruit; Fort Fairfield, September 
1900, June and September 1901, M. Z. Fernald. 
This species is named for Marcus Rodman Keep, “ Parson” 
Keep, for forty-eight years a resident in Aroostook Co., a clergyman 
and missionary at large, widely identified with the educational and 
agricultural development of his adopted state, a friend of the poor, 
and the helpful adviser of all who sought information on the flora of 
northern Maine. 
* * Anthers pink. 
Crataegus Fernaldi, n. sp. Leaves ovate to rhombic, long- 
` pointed at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed at the entire or 
glandular base, finely often doubly serrate above, with incurved teeth 
tipped with large dark red glands, and deeply divided above the 
middle into 4 or 5 pairs of narrow acuminate lobes; nearly fully 
grown when the flowers open and then membranaceous, light yellow- 
green and slightly hairy along the midribs above, pale and villose 
below, with scattered hairs persistent during the season on the stout 
yellow midribs and primary veins extending very obliquely to the 
points of the lobes; at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark green 
and lustrous on the upper surface, light yellow-green on the lower 
